Oil palm plantation and rainforest in Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, 2008 Britain will contribute £50m ($80m) towards efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Indonesia, including a project…

Britain will contribute £50 million ($80m) towards efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Indonesia, including a project that aims to encourage palm oil producers to establish plantations on degraded…

The U.S. government aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent by 2020 under an order announced Friday by President Obama. “As the largest energy consumer in the United…

絶滅危惧種であるスマトラトラの保全政策として　インドネシアの新制度 Indonesia has a new plan to save the Critically Endangered Sumatran tiger, reports the AFP: sell captive-born tigers as pets. The proposed price is 100,000 US dollars for a…

Small-scale farmers who lease land from the Brazilian government are very much responsible for deforestation in the Brazilian state of Rondonia in the Amazon area. In most areas with agrarian…

Defensive ostrich in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, 2007

Yurts near Lake Karakul, Xinjiang. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, 2006 Xinjiang, China's largest and westernmost province, is one of the planet's most remote and desolate regions. Covering more than…

Babobab in western Madagascar, near Morondava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, 2004 Madagascar is renowned for its biological richness. Located off the eastern coast of southern Africa and slightly larger…

Una especie apodada como "el pez con el aspecto más miserable del mundo" está en riesgo de extinción debido a las pobres prácticas pesqueras, informa The Daily Telegraph. El blobfish…

La falta de estructura y de reglas claras para el mecanismo propuesto de mitigación del cambio climático conocido como Reducción de Emisiones por Deforestación y Degradación Forestal (REDD) podría poner…

Painting urban roofs white could effectively counteract some of the urban heat-island effect and even lower greenhouse gas emissions in cities, reports a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. "Our…

Analysts in Europe and the United States are using high resolution satellite imagery to identify and track shipments of timber illegally logged from rainforest parks in Madagascar. The images could…

Sometime around 2050 researchers estimate that the global population will level-out at nine billion people, adding over two billion more people to the planet. Since, one billion of the world's…

La nueva teoría, que ha sido ampliamente ignorada por la comunidad científica, podría cambiar la forma en la que las generaciones futuras aprecien a los bosques. Victor Gorshkov y Anastassia…

A press release came out recently that claimed a new sighting and photographs of the 'extinct' ivory-billed woodpecker. There hasn't been a confirmed sighting of the ivory-billed woodpecker since the…

The idea goes something like this: nations would send megatons of light-scattering aerosol particles into the globe's upper atmosphere, significantly reducing sunlight reaching the earth and thereby immediately cooling the…

Evaluating 163 nations on their environmental performance, the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) has named Iceland the most environmental nation. Released every two years, the EPI also found that the world's…

Approximately 400 hundred citizens protested the proposal to build a sludge incinerator in Southern China in Foshan, according to the Guangzhou Daily and Reuters. The protestors wore surgical masks and…

This is an update to Madagascar's Political Chaos Threatens Conservation Gains, which appeared on Yale e360 on January 4, 2010. Madagascar is renowned for its biological richness. Located off the…

Citing environmental concerns, Target has stopped selling farmed salmon products nationwide. In a statement released Tuesday the retail giant said the decision includes national brands and Target-owned brands, including Archer…

A court in the Malaysian state of Sarawak has issued an injunction to block the continued destruction of the Iban village of Sungai Sekabai, reports the Bruno Manser Fund (BMF),…

Sumatran tiger in captivity. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, 2005 Indonesia has a new plan to save the Critically Endangered Sumatran tiger, reports the AFP: sell captive-born tigers as pets.…

The 2000s were the warmest decade on record according to analysis by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Goddard's surface temperature record shows an upward trend of about 0.2°C…

Lack of a clear framework and rules for a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) could jeopardize its effectiveness and put…

A species dubbed "the world's most miserable-looking fish" is at risk of extinction due to poor fishing practices, reports The Daily Telegraph. The Blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus), a gelatinous fish that…

Mljet island, Croatia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, 2005 Mljet, known as the 'Green Island,' is a largely forested island that features two saltwater lakes. Mljet is believed to have…

Pink lotus in Java. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, 2006 Little more than 10,000 hectares of rainforest remains on Java From 2003-2006, Java lost approximately 2,5000 hectares a year (10,000…

Πιο ψηλά από το κατώτερο στρώμα του εδάφους των δασών, στο απομονωμένο Κολομβιανό νησί Gorgona ζει μια σαύρα με αστραφτερό μπλε δέρμα, που ανταγωνίζεται το μπλε του ουρανού. Η Anolis…

The Peruvian government has moved to protect 33 guano sites—both islands and peninsulas—as well as surrounding waters in a bid to save declining bird populations. Millions of birds nest on…

A new project aims to increase transparency in the forestry sector, an area long plagued by corruption and mismanagement. The Forest Sector Transparency Report Card, launched by Global Witness, an…